Wayne Gerard Trotman Quotes
Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.
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Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
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As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah's measurable business success.
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I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
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I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
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What do cells do when they see a broken piece of DNA? Cells don't like such breaks. They'll do pretty much anything they can to fix things up. If a chromosome is broken, the cells will repair the break using an intact chromosome.
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Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.
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I think 'Indiana Jones' was a lot of fun to do because of the places we went to and the adventures and the action. But Han Solo was also a huge part of my life.
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I would like to see people dreaming of striking out on their own into some other country or their own, wherever they feel the action is, in the hope of an exciting and rewarding career.
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As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.
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Unfortunately, I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven't had an agent in 10 years, and now I'm doing some of the most interesting films I've ever had an opportunity to play in.
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I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.
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I've never written a character that wasn't burdened by years of pain and trauma. Let's face it: Most comic-book heroes have some serious baggage. Not Green Arrow. He's a healthy guy - imagine that? Carrying your hero around in your head, imagining the world through his eyes, is just a hoot.
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I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
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Laws are never as effective as habits.
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Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.
